Tag: Data61

Huge new boost for cyber sector

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
The Turnbull government’s $230 million Cyber Security Strategy turns one this week and the industry scores a boost from a new Cyber Security Sector Competitiveness Plan launched today. The...

New DTA to link with Data61

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Newly-appointed Digital Transformation Agency chief executive Gavin Slater – an ex-banker from Melbourne – will be spending plenty of time in airports in the coming months as the governments...

Data61 cranks global talent drive

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The uneasy relationship between the science and technology communities in the US and the Trump Administration – particularly over immigration – presents a huge opportunity for Australia to aggressively...

Expat Genevieve returns to Aust

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Expatriate anthropologist and tech industry legend Genevieve Bell is returning to Australia after a career in the US to take up a research role split between the CSIRO’s Data61...

Hunt unveils new vision for CSIRO

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The CSIRO has been told where to prioritise its efforts and what the government expects from it; in return it has been promised a modest $115 million increase in...

Adrian Turner’s new call to arms

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
Australian business is taking too long to transform, placing the nation’s economy in a “precarious position” according to Adrian Turner, the chief executive office at Data 61, the nation’s...

Aust to lose top security scientist

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
Gernot Heiser, one of the main brains behind the extremely hard to hack seL4 microkernel, is set to leave Australia for Germany to work in a cyber security startup....

ASIC’s new role in blockchain rules

Posted on   |  by James Riley
CSIRO’s Data61 will pilot test the blockchain technology that offers instant settlement between banks, and ASIC will create a regulatory sandbox for FinTech startups to prove-out their ideas. But...

The Outsiders: Our Class of 2015

Posted on   |  by James Riley
In the tech and innovation sectors, there are three high-profile names you will see popping up again and again. Paul Shetler, Adrian Turner and Alex Scandurra are outsiders, recruited...